Wesley College, Auckland

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Wesley College Te Kura O Te Haahi Weteriana O Aotearoa
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Motto	Fide Litteris Labore
Type	State integrated secondary (Year 7-15), Senior co-ed, jnr boys only
Year established	1844
Address	State Highway 22, Pukekohe
Principal	Ian Faulkner
School roll	304
Socio-economic decile (10 is high)	2
Ministry of Education Institution no.	104
Website	www.wesley.school.nz

Wesley College is a secondary school in Pukekohe, New Zealand. The school provides education from Form 1 to Form 7.

The school was founded by members of the Methodist Church in 1844, making it one of the country's oldest schools. Initially located in Grafton and then the Three Kings area of Auckland, it closed briefly in 1869 before reopening in 1876 in Three Kings again. From the beginning there was an empahasis on educating Maori boys, and also played a prominent role in educating students from countries of the South Pacific. In 1924 the school was moved to its current location of Paerata, near Pukekohe. In 1985 it was one of the first boys schools in New Zealand to admit girls at the senior level.